Overall, I think this video card is worth purchasing if you are looking
to upgrade or are moving to PCI-E. For a mid-high range card it holds
well in FPS games and does well in RTS and MMORPGs as well. It stays
cooler than the 6600GTs which it replaces, which idled around 50c, a
temperature this one only reaches after a gaming session. Although I'd
still like to see the card come with RAM heatsinks, I have not run
across a time where the extra cooling was required. The biggest
disappointment I had was having to wait for the second card to arrive
after the first one arrived DOA.